New at Indus World School

Monday, October 27, 2014

Parents are child’s first and most enduring
educators, parental involvement is a key element for child’s success in school.
Indus World School has always considered parents as integral part of the
curriculum, we believe in Child Centric Learning where mentors, parents and
curriculum work in sync to look for the overall development of a child. We conduct
many workshops and events like Parenting Seminars, Parent out bounds, Workshops on Academics. One more unique practice that
helps us to know child better is Home Vist – Mentors visit the home of each
child once a year to get to know the family better. This gesture goes a long
way in building a lasting bond between child, mentor and parents

One such event Math for Momswas conducted on Saturday at IWS, DLF

Gurgaon. Moms are the one who spends most of the time with the children. The
agenda for the session was to bridge the gap and bring same understanding in
parents. They experienced how maths learning happens from our surroundings
especially our kitchen. The session saw experiencing learnings about pre number
concepts, number familiarization, one to one correspondence, mastery of number
levels, writing, addition, subtraction, tens and ones etc. We realized how our
daily life is into maths only from alarm clock to car speed and distance, from
measurement and quantity of food to be prepared to dressing up. Hence, we
experienced joyful learning in maths

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

We
at Indus World School always like to innovate and come out with processes that
will help each child in our care excel and learn. Innovation also happens to be
one of our core values. However, when an external agency ratifies this, it
surely leaves us with a wow moment. !! One such wow moment
at Indus happened very recently when Indus World School bagged the award for
'Innovation in Pedagogical Practices' at the 4th World Education Summit
organized by digital Learning and eletsTechnomedia.

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World Education Summit, organized annually since 2011, is the world’s premier
platform on education for everyone who is passionate about education and
learning. Top schools of India had filled in the nominations and it was a
moment of pride as our school bagged this award. Our focus was Indus
Practices and Tech@Indus (technology at Indus).

As
an Indusian I look at this award as a small window through which the world
outside gets a glimpse of the life at Indus. So on one hand the
curriculum adopted very beautifully integrates the three R’s of education:
Responsibility, Relationships and Reverence for the entire life. The entire
focus is thus on the need to learn about oneself and to be involved in one’s
learning thereby nurturing self- respect and self -esteem. The learning also
inculcates the social and emotional literacy along with the focus on academics
and MACDS –Music, Art, Craft, Dance Drama and Sports. We do all this with the
help of some unique practices generally termed as Indus Practices.

Our
school harnesses technology in a unique manner. Indusians are developingtheir thinking skills by engagingwith technology rather
than consumingtechnology. Children
at IWS learn to use a programming language – Scratch- from an early age. Each child from grade 4 onwards uses an
educational tablet. The tabs are like a personal ‘Smart Class’. The children
use the tabs to take diagnostic tests. The online learning platform
‘Compassbox’ has a number of tests for the children to practice. A fully wi-fi
campus with a safe high speed Video Conferencing (VC) facility connects the
children across our sister schools. Subject experts use VC for arranging
lectures, we also use VC for teacher training and sharing of resources. The
School connects to the parents through its indigenous technology for
communication – SIS – Student
Information System. We also use Google Apps for Education and the drive to
share and upload all documents including daily homework, newsletter, circulars
etc.

Indus is
creating ripples in the academic circles and each one of us at Indus is taking
a moment to reflect and celebrate this moment. However, we Indusians believe in
the adage – Plan, Prepare, Proceed and Pursue and so the learning cycle
never stops at Indus. Many more ideasand wow moments are in the offing as life
at Indus is all about joyful learning!

Friday, August 8, 2014

Success is liking yourself, liking
what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya
Angelou

The above quote is proved by our
Indusian- Rajat Jhawar from class XI who
through his practice and hard work, turned his hobby into a passion and earned "STAR"
artist award for the second time in Picasso International art competition. This is a global online art contest which has been started to
motivate artistic and creative minds and provides a good platform for many
young artists.

Indus World School
has always believed in integrating MACDS (Music, Art , Craft Dance and Sports ) as part of the curriculum
and provides training and platform for children to excel in them .
These activities help
in the overall development of the children and enable them to acquire the
skills required to be effective leaders in the 21st Century.